We already knew that Bethesda and ID's remake of classic shooter Doom would be violent -- that's sort of the point, after all. But a just released new trailer for the game has made clear that, maybe, it wasn't so ridiculous after all for press to suggest it would be among the more violent games in history.

The new Doom will be released on 13 May 2016, Bethesda has announced, and as well as a traditionally over-the-top and expensive collector's edition and some multiplayer bonuses, we now know a bit more about how the game will play.

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The trailer begins with the player picking up the lifeless body of a presumed former teammate and slamming their face into a retina scan: that's your first clue.

After that unsavoury event, the player descends to a corridor filled with monsters, which are then shot, punched, stamped and chainsawed into tiny pieces. After about thirty seconds the player comes a cropper, and something else rather horrible happens at the hands of a demon with glowing green eyes and a very powerful grip.

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It's not just violence, though, it seems. In a recent preview, Gamesradar said the game was "the most cerebral slaughterhouse you've ever seen", saying that Doom is "an intricate, polished, and aggressively tuned-up machine, with intelligent and purposeful design underpinning every whirling mechanism and furious combustion".

Doomwill also feature a map editor and multiplayer elements, but the focus seems to be directly on the fast-paced, violent, run-and-gun formula of the original. Whether bounding through hell with a variety of heavy duty gardening equipment sounds like your thing is probably up to you, but you'll get your chance to find out sooner rather than later. Details on a long-awaited beta are set to be revealed later on Thursday, Bethesda told Gamespot.